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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Tourism in the Pacific Rim
Author: Colin Michael HallPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Tourism in the Pacific Rim is the first book to provide a coherent picture of international tourism in the Asia-Pacific region. Countries included in the book are Japan; China; North East Asia comprising South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong; the ASEAN nations of Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Australia and New Zealand; and the microstates of the South Pacific.
Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim
Author: Dennis O. FlynnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134753454
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Trade across the Pacific will be one of the dominant forces in the economy of the next century. This collection reflects the birth of Pacific Rim history, until recently largely neglected. It addresses the development of the Pacific Rim over four centuries, combining broad historical syntheses with a range of essays on specific topics, from trade with Hong Kong to British overseas banking. It will form a major contribution to this rapidly expanding new field.
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Author: Tourism in Pacific Islands
Author: Stephen PrattPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317682572
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Pacific Island Countries have been shown to be especially vulnerable to such external influences as natural disasters, political unrest and downturns in the global economy and their tourism industries have been notably affected. In particular, they typically have a narrow resource base and a fragile and often vulnerable natural environment. While there is some research on islands and small states, there is a dearth of information on the South Pacific and very little research is being undertaken in the region compared to other geographical regions in the world. This volume brings together current work in Pacific Island tourism. In this collection, three main themes arise: Images of the South Pacific; Socio-economic Impacts of Tourism; and Pacific Island Countries and the Outside World. The first focus is on the question of image, namely, stereotypes of a destination held by tourists and potential tourists, the extent to which residents, for their part, really welcome visitors, and the role tourism might play in changing pre-established images. The second theme is tourism's impacts, notably the economic and socio-cultural effects of international tourism's intrusion in the region which, though often hotly debated, have attracted relatively little empirical research. The third focus is on the challenges of how PICs articulate with their external geo-political and physical environment. These involve existing relations with formal colonial centres, geographical isolation, the need for greater air access to the outside world and for more tourists, and the continuing threat to several PICs of global warming, which increased air travel will inevitably exacerbate. This text will be of interest to tourism students, researchers and academics in the fields of tourism, development studies and cultural studies.
A Companion to Tourism
Author: Alan A. LewPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470752262
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for tourism. A critical overview of current research in tourism studies. Offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in tourism studies in the light of recent developments, such as terrorist attacks, SARS and the financial failure of airlines. Comprises 48 specially commissioned essays, written by more than 50 acknowledged experts from around the world. Covers cutting-edge perspectives and topics, including tourism’s role in globalization, sustainable tourism, and the state’s role in tourism development. Sets an agenda for future tourism research. Includes a wealth of bibliographic references.
The Pacific Islands
Author: Moshe RapaportPublisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573060424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Forty-five contributors offer information on the physical environment, history, culture, population, economy, and living environment of the Pacific islands.
Samoa (Western) Economic and Development Strategy Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments
Author: IBP USAPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1433043238
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Samoa (Western) Economic & Development Strategy Handbook
Tourism, Culture and Development
Author: Stroma ColePublisher: Channel View Publications
ISBN: 1845410696
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book provides a holistic, multi-stakeholder picture of the first twenty years of tourism development in aremote region of Eastern Indonesia. It is a rich description of how tourism is intertwined with life in anon-western, marginal community. Based on anthropological methods, this ethnography is about tourism andsocio-cultural change, tourists, conflict, globalisation, poverty and powerlessness.
Rural Tourism Development
Author: E. Wanda GeorgePublisher: Channel View Publications
ISBN: 1845413067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with both the nature of change in rural areas and tourism development, the dynamics and impacts of integrating these two dramatic shifts are not well known but yet are becoming increasingly provocative discourses for study. This book links changes at the local, rural community level to broader, more structural considerations of globalization and allows for a deeper, more theoretically sophisticated consideration of the various forces and features of rural tourism development. While Canadian in content, the cases and discussions presented in this book can be considered generally relevant to any rural region, continentally and globally, that has undertaken or is considering rural tourism development.
A History of American State and Local Economic Development
Author: Ronald W. CoanPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 178536636X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems approach while exploring the three eras of economic development.